Counting Down to Apollo

One American's account of watching humanity reach the Moon

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Houston, We’ve Had a Problem
Apollo 13 April 13, 1970

Houston, We’ve Had a Problem

Something went very wrong on Apollo 13 tonight. An oxygen tank exploded 200,000 miles from Earth. Two of the three fuel cells are dead. The service module is venting into space. Three men are in a crippled spacecraft on the way to the Moon and nobody knows yet if they…
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